newbie dual boot grub menu failure
 

Hello. I'm running a dual-boot with linux mint and Windows. I have an E-machines desktop with :
760 GB Hard Drive
6GB RAM
NVidia GeForce Graphics card 6150se Integrated
AMD Athalon II X2 235e dual-core processor

My problem is getting my grub to boot into Linux Mint, and the problem may lie with my graphics card. Whenever I install the linux mint for the first time, I am prompted to activate my proprietary NVidia graphics driver, which I do. Then I am asked to reboot. Upon reboot, the system gets to the grub menu, accepts my selection to boot linux mint, then the "progress dots" appear on the screen. After about 8 seconds, the screen switches into command prompt mode. I never get to the graphical sign-on screen. All I get is the console sign-on prompts. From there my only option seems to be to reboot. (sudu reboot). After which, of course, I am forced to go into Windows vs. Linux to avoid the problem. Once Windows has loaded up, I do a restart and go back into Linux Mint . Finally, I get to the Linux sign-on graphical screen.

To summarize, i cannot restart linux mint without getting stuck staring at a console screen. I can get back into linux mint if i use the command 'sudo reboot', and, from the grub menu, choosing to go into Windows. From Windows, I then do a restart and end up back at the grub screen again, but this time when I select linux mint, things work and I am given the sign-on gui.

If I choose to not install the graphics driver (and put up with the annoying reminder to activate one), the system dual boots without a problem.

edit your grub menu (press e when grub comes up) add xdriver=nouveau

see if that driver works for you.

How do I edit my grub menu so the changes are permanent
 

Hello. Thanks for the help.

OK, I pressed 'e' at the grub menu and at the bottom of the list I entered 'xdriver=nouveau'

How do I make this change permanent. I'm guessing I need to press CTRL+S or CTRL+X or something. I tried CTRL+x but the next time I checked, the command I typed in was nowhere to be found.

If you want to make it permanent add 'xdriver=nouveau' to /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

In terminal sudo su nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Instead of nano you use may pico kwrite or any other real linux text editor
And add the line you wise to add

Ok, thanks for the help. Here's where I'm at:

I was able to create the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with gedit and inserted the command
xdriver=nouveau
But there was no change -- I still upon a hard reboot get kicked out to the terminal screen. I did find out, however, that I can run the command "sudo gdm" which allows me to log in and get to the desktop. I sure would like to know if there's a way around having to do this every time I boot up.

take care